CHAPTER 96.  THE CLOT                                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  READ IN THE NAME OF YOUR LORD WHO CREATES

2  MAN FROM A CLOT OF BLOOD HE CREATES

3  READ AND YOUR LORD IS MOST GENEROUS TO MEN

4  HE WHO TAUGHT MAN THE USE OF THE PEN

5  TAUGHT MAN WHAT WAS NOT KNOWN TO HIM

6  BUT MAN, ALL BOUNDS ARE TRANSGRESSED BY HIM

7  IN THAT HE LOOKS UPON HIMSELF
AS BEING SUFFICIENT IN HIMSELF

8  SURELY TO GOD IS THE RETURNING

9  SEE YOU THE ONE FORBIDDING

10  THE DEVOTEE FROM PRAYING?

11  SEE IF HE HAS RIGHT GUIDING

12  OR ENJOINS RIGHTEOUS DOING

13  SEE IF HE TURNS AWAY REJECTING

14  DOES HE NOT KNOW THAT GOD IS ALL SEEING?

15  LET HIM BEWARE IF HE DESISTS NOT 
WE WILL DRAG HIM BY THE FORELOCK

16  A LYING SINFUL FORELOCK

17  THEN LET HIM CALL HIS COMRADES TO HELP HIM

18  WE WILL CALL THE ANGELS TO PUNISH HIM

19  NAY, DO NOT OBEY HIM
BUT BOW DOWN TO GOD AND OBEY HIM

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